Despite Losing in the 19th, The South Won Much in the 20th Century

Beginning in the 1930s, liberalism and Southern-style white supremacy worked well together. Today’s guest Jeremy Kessler argues that it is liberals themselves who shoulder the blame for accomdating racist Jim Crow policies. As a result, Southern values controlled the implementation of much of FDR’s New Deal. And the Cold War, that too came out of the dominance of Southern values. Today, in many ways, we continue to pay the price.